Alice Loxton
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770 appearances
11 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Alice Loxton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, of course, this whole story and history in general is never that definitive.
I mean it's worth saying that there's a difference between the high fashion and the high styles of
People like Josephine Bonaparte and ordinary people who had practical jobs that, you know, probably would have continued to use the tie on pocket.
The other thing is that a lot of the dressmakers were women.
So you'd have thought that they might have tried to put them in.
But the truth is that sewn in pockets just weren't the norm and they hadn't been for for many centuries.
but there are some quite funny examples of people trying to put a pocket in an empire line dress.
For example, there's one that's kind of under your armpits.
I don't know, it's very elegant.
Well
think it really compromises the look.
But it's also worth saying that the tie on pocket hasn't completely disappeared.
So we spoke to the historian Ariane Feneteau, who's one of the co-authors of the book The Pocket.
And she said that the tie on pocket had this stubborn resilience throughout history, despite what was fashionable.
So lots of women did continue to use it.
So we can sort of assume that upper class women would sometimes pick and choose when to wear the pockets.
based on the occasion, whether it was appropriate or not, how they're expected to dress.
But because these pockets are in the shadows, they're often ridiculed for being old fashioned or the accessory of a doddery old woman, as it was put.
Yeah, it's it's really interesting that development.
So women do develop the use of this little bag.
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